The 2012 PokerStars.comEuropean Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event continued Wednesday as the final 207 from a 1,082-player field returned to the Casino Barcelona for Day 3. After five levels of play, the money bubble had burst and just 61 players remained. Leading the way going into Day 4 was Antonin Duda, who bagged up 1.47 million.

Duda got the vast majority of his chips by battling Guy Bachar, the Day 1b chip leader. Bachar carried his starting-flight momentum into Day 2 where continued to add to his stack, and he was trending upward early on Day 3 until he hit a major roadblock in the form of Duda. It happened when Bachar six-bet all in preflop and Duda called off for 574,000, creating a pot of nearly 1.2 million.

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Bachar:
Duda:

Bachar seemed content with the possibility of cracking kings, but the flop made that highly unlikely. Bachar mumbled a bit, rose from his seat and walked away from the table. He returned in time to see the turn give him a gut-shot straight draw, but the river would not complete it.

Duda finished off Bachar a short time later. With around 200,000 in the pot and a board reading , Bachar moved all in for approximately 300,000 and was called by Duda.

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Duda:

Bachar:

Bachar let it ride with the nut-flush draw, which he needed to hit in order to overcome Duda's trip nines. The dealer burned and put out the on the river. Bachar was left shaking his head as he made his way to the payout desk in 77th place.

Long before Duda went on a tear, the field had to lose 47 players to get down to the money. Barry Greenstein, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Theo Jorgensen, Saar Wilf, Elisabeth Hille and Sam Holden were among those who left empty handed.

On the money bubble, Australian Jonathan Karamalikis, called Aliaksei Boika’s all-in bet of 37,500 from the cutoff to put Boika at risk of being the bubble boy.

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Boika:
Karamalikis:

The dealer burned the first card and put out the flop — nothing for Boika. The on the turn and on the river were no good for Boika, and he became the official 2012 EPT Barcelona Main Event bubble boy. The rest of the field was guaranteed at least €8,400.

While many notables failed to survive, quite a few moved on to Day 4, including Day 2 chip leader John Juanda (968,000), online sensation Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies (1,269,000), the 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final runner-up Lucille Cailly (902,000), Day 1a chip leader Aku Joentausta (862,000), and Team PokerStars Pros Fatima Moreira de Melo (955,000) and Matthias De Meulder (116,000).

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